A shooting in the Brown Universitya prestigious university center in the state of Rhode Island, in the northeast of the United States, left at least twenty victims this Saturday, in the latest episode of armed violence in the first power. … world. The information does not specify whether the victims are injured or dead.
The university alerted students to an active shooting at 4:22 p.m. (10:22 p.m. in Spain) in the near a Faculty of Engineering building. “Close the doors, turn off the phones and hide until further news,” university authorities asked the entire community on alert. “Run if you are near the affected area, evacuate safely if you can; hide if evacuation is not possible; fight as a last resort, act to protect yourself,” the message recommends.
A second alert announced that a suspect had been arrested by police. But shortly after, the post was corrected to ensure that at least one attacker was still active.
He university newspaper‘The Brown Daily Herald’, claimed that there was at least twenty victimsaccording to information that could be heard on the fire department radio. But there is currently no information whether there are any injuries or deaths.
Images and videos posted on social media show a large presence of police and first responders on campus, as well as officers helping potential victims lying on the ground.
So far this year, there have been 73 school shootings in the United States, according to CNN. Among them, 42 took place in university centers and 31 in primary and secondary schools.
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